My mom was the positive influence in my life.
She was always building me up. She called me a trooper. In addition to being
my mom she was also my best friend.

Mom loved horses. She taught me to ride at
three years old. Even when I was just a little kid mom and I would ride in
horse shows together. We went everywhere together. Mom loved to shop. I even
went shopping with her just to be with her. I didnt like it though, it was
boring, but I went just to be with her. Shopping is a girls thing.

When I was about ten years old we moved to the
country and Pop (thats what I called my father) built mom a stable on five
acres of land. She would teach riding lessons and rent and board horses, and I
grew up roaming the woods on my horse and hunting and fishing and stuff like
that. It was a good life and I loved it.

When I was 13 my dad got the idea that I should
go to military school. He was afraid that mom would spoil me or I would grow
up to be a sissy being around women all the time...ha, fat chance! I wish pop
would have kept his machismo ideas to himself, but I went for two years, and
Id never been so homesick in my life.

When I was fourteen I talked mom into letting
me take flying lessons. The war was just over and flying lessons were cheap
and you could solo at fourteen and get your private license at sixteen. They
wrote me up in the paper, as the youngest pilot in the history of Shreveport.
Ive still got the picture. Then I got Mom interested in flying and we
bought a plane. The newspaper article was entitled, "Mother and Son
Flying Team."

When I became high school age my dad got
another of his machismo ideas. We should sell moms stable and move to town
and buy a fancy house in the best section of town, ostensibly so I could have
a social life. Personally I believe that he manipulated mom into this just to
gratify an ego trip. He had made money during the war and now he wanted to be
a big shot. This turned out to be the worst mistake he ever made.

So we bought the big house and moved into town
and I got the social life that dad wanted and a convertible. But secretly mom
wasnt happy. But she kept it from me. She missed her stable and her horses
and the big house and fine furniture didnt mean a thing to her. And
besides, her little boy was growing up and she felt I didnt need her
anymore. I guess she got depressed, but we didnt know what that was in
those days.

One night about 2:00 AM my dad came into my
room and woke me up. He said, "Son, prepare yourself for the most
serious thing that ever happened to you!" I woke up with a start, "What,"
I said." He then said to me, "Your Mother has just shot herself
!" I ran into moms bedroom. She was unconscious. I laid her head in
my lap and just held her. There was a bullet hole in her temple. She died in
my arms. There are no words sufficient to describe the pain I felt. My heart
literally broke inside me. It was if I had died too.

It was April Fools day.

I felt like a zombie. Walking around dead. I
started drinking to kill the pain, but I couldnt cry it hurt too bad! I
went through the next forty years of my life like that all dead inside but I
still couldnt cry. Till finally one day I looked in the mirror. I didnt
like the person I saw. I went to Alcoholics Anonymous and quit drinking.

One night a spirit came to me and held my hand.
I felt that my mothers spirit was in the room. I talked to her and forgave
her. Then it lifted. Something comforted me all that night. It must have been
the Holy Ghost.

I wont go into all the details of all the
suffering that Alcoholism cost me, about the bankruptcy or my marriage
breaking up because its not relative to this story. I just hung onto AA
because it was all that I had at the time to go on.

Then one day God called me. He told me to move
to Oklahoma City that I had a friend there that he wanted me to meet. I kept
getting confirmations that I should move to Oklahoma City so I went. I loved
it, Oklahoma City is a spiritual place. The big sky. Ive never seen so many
stars in my life. At night all you can see are stars from horizon to horizon.
And the friend I was to meet turned out to be Jesus.

Jesus became everything I needed. My best
friend, my Heavenly father and my mother. Words cant describe what it is
like to get born again. Its like literally getting born again. Suddenly
you're brand new. All the old hurt and guilt of the past is gone and life is
filled with hope and wonder. The sun shines brighter and the moon is bigger
and the flowers smell sweeter and the birds sing prettier and suddenly life is
wonderful. And miracles are an every day occurrence. Suddenly everybody is
nicer to you than ever and you make friends everywhere you go.

I wouldnt trade anything in the world for my
new life with Jesus. Ive had every material thing that a man could want but
it didnt mean a thing without him.

My mothers tragic death left its mark on me.
For twelve years I went around rescuing young women in their early thirties.
Just the age my mother was when she died. My testimony has averted several
suicides and I have been able to lead several young women to the Lord.

I spent seven years in the street ministry
working with the prostitutes, feeding them, clothing them, and taking them in
when necessary, nursing them when they were sick and visiting them when they
were in Jail. They called me their pastor. It was one of the most beautiful
experiences of my life.

Living for Jesus isnt easy but it is the
most rewarding life that a person can have. Jesus is in a war. A war between
good and evil, and he calls you to be a soldier in the army of God.

I hope my mother is in Heaven. She never talked
to me about things like that. She kept too much to herself and it killed her.
I love you Mom, wherever you are!

"And this gospel of the
kingdom [Jesus
died for sinners] shall be preached in all the world for a witness
unto all nations; and then shall the end come."
(Quote from Jesus Himself: Matthew 24:14).

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"all the nations" have never heard YET what Jesus accomplished
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Perhaps you're just surfing and after
reading this, have realized that you are in need of a Savior. God
loves you so very much and sent His very Best to take our sin burden.

John 3:16 says, "For God so
loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth on Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life".

Romans 10:13 says,"For we have all sinned and come short of the Glory of
God".

Christ has paid the debt He did not owe,
because we owed a debt we could not pay.

If you have never asked Jesus Christ into
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the Darkness and our Bridge over troubled water; He is our
Peace.

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to be certain. Either Jesus Christ died for your sins, or He didn't (He
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get in right-standing with God? We plead with you ... please don't make
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